When a Barcelona band lands on IDIOTEQ, the expectation usually goes one way. Emo, maybe screamo, definitely something melodic with heart in it. Disposal arrived to flip that. Their debut demo “In Reverence to Nothing” sits at the opposite end of the city’s hardcore spectrum, all HM-2 buzzsaw tones and 90s NYDM crush, what the band themselves call “caveman” riffs played as filthy as possible.
The reference points are clear. Swedish death anchors one side (Entombed, Dismember), wired into the New York death and slam canon on the other (Suffocation, Internal Bleeding, Pyrexia). Contemporary touchstones land closer to Anhedonia, Final Resting Place, and Xibalba. The result is heavy and ugly by design.
For Disposal, simplicity is the point. “Being simple is a discipline,” they say. “Making a song heavy and filthy without overcomplicating things is harder than it looks. We grew up listening to hc beatdown, as well as NYDM/Slam (Suffo, Internal Bleeding, Pyrexia) along with those Swedish HM-2 bands (Entombed, Dismember), so we just mixed those worlds.”
Live, they hold to the same wall-of-sound approach and HM-2 weight from the recording. “We play what we love, and I think people see we are being honest with that.”
Releasing a demo rather than a single was a conscious move. The tracks run as a single arc, a journey of descent and ascent, and the band wanted that to land in one piece. “It’s that nihilistic, direct attitude you find in the best Hardcore and Death Metal.”
The cover is a collaboration with tattooist @xhenia.tatuajes, built around a 90s underground death metal look (Repudilation gets cited as a reference point) with a meaning baked in.
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The execution scene reads literally at first, until you notice the figures look like each other. “It’s about executing the worst parts of yourself,” Elias explains. “It ties into the title. ‘In Reverence to Nothing’: not kneeling before anything, especially the things that hold you back.”
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The wider context isn’t friendly. “The scene here is tough right now,” Elias says. “More people are getting into Beatdown, but the government is closing almost every underground venue. It’s a big problem for all of us, but we are still here. There aren’t many bands doing this HM-2/Beatdown mix in the city, so we are doing our own thing.”
Disposal played their first show recently, opening for Recount and No Face No Case. “The energy was crazy.”
The whole thing is DIY. Recording came together with help from @baritone.culture and @mixingbyjere, art by @xhenia.tatuajes. Stay tuned for more brutalityy from DISPOSAL!
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